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This preschool snowman craft is perfect to make during the cold winter months. It's a low-prep snowman arts and crafts idea and is great for little hands! Just grab 4 materials and you can make this cute snowman craft with your little one, too!

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Sometimes it is just too cold or the snow isn't snowman material, but you have a little one eager to make a snowman right now!! What are you to do?

The next best thing to making a snowman outside with real snow, is to make snowman arts and crafts inside!

This preschool snowman craft is easy to make. No major preparations needed! Just grab a few simple household materials and your little one can make this cute pom pom painted snowman craft, too!

Over the years, we made so many crafts with different mediums, but somehow, we always return to paper crafts! Same thing happens over holidays and we end up making so many Christmas paper crafts! From simple cut and glue, to origami and quilling Christmasthemed decorations, we love to make all of them!

Hi friends! Tis the season for all things crafty, right? I'm happy to have Maggy from Red Ted Art sharing with us, again! Knowing my love for children's literature, Maggy once put together an awesome collection of Story Inspired Kid Crafts. She is your gal for easy and fun crafts for the kiddos! With Christmas around the corner, enjoy these Christmas Paper Crafts kids can make! Fill the tree, decorate your house, and keep the kids busy over break with these fun Christmas paper craft ideas!

Christmas Paper Crafts

Christmas cards can look amazing but still be pretty simple to make. The best example is pop-up Christmas tree card. Looks complicated? It really isn’t so hard to make as it looks! Give it a try and make some with kids this Christmas!

Have you tried quilling before? It’s fun and finished projects look amazing! We used it to make quilled Christmas tree cardbut you can use same process to recreate a number of Christmas themed items on your card!

Hard to believe, but quilling has been used to make these lovely quilled Christmas tree decorations. Make them larger to use on your mantel or smaller to use as centerpieces for your Christmas table!

Ahhh, we just love to work with paper! So easy to use and possibilities for projects are practically endless! Grab some of your favorite patterned papers to make loads ofpaper ornaments for your Christmas decorations!

For book loving friends and family members, along with new book to read, add a personal touch to y gift with lovelyChristmas tree bookmark you created yourself. They will never forget on which page they stopped their reading!

Even little ones love to participate in Christmas activities. Let your toddlers and preschoolers to tear paper to scraps and then make adorable littletorn paper Christmas wreaths to display on your door.

We adore these 3D paper trees! They look amazing displayed as Christmas decoration even when left plain white! But of course, it’s up to you to decide if you want to add decorations on them or make them in different color to match your Christmas decor!

When it comes to paper crafts, origami is must try! There are many different ornaments you can make by simply folding paper, did you know? Personally, we love the look of these 3D origami ornaments! Hard to tell they are made from paper, right?

A single paper plate, some paint and decorative items and kids are all set to make their own paper plate tree craft. They will also work on their fine motor skills when lacing ribbon to connect all the pieces together.

Paper is amazing as crafting medium, wouldn't you agree?

It’s wonderful how changing paper you use to make your Christmas ornament from plain white to patterned can change to whole feel of the finished item! Or how you can make so many beautiful and decorative items by simply folding piece of paper! Hope you will get inspired by our selection here to make many paper crafts this Christmas with your kids!

Create whimsical pom pom ornaments inspired by one of our favorite storybooks, Put Me in the Zoo! These colorful Christmas ornaments will be a playful addition to your Christmas tree and are so fun and easy for preschoolers to make!

When you love a children's book so much that it inspires you to make a Christmas tree decoration, you know it must be a good book!!

And indeed, Put Me in the Zoo is a fabulous read with its rhyming text and playful character with magical spots!

We've mentioned this book on the blog before by sharing 3 fun Put Me in the Zoo Activities toddlers and preschoolers would enjoy, and once again we brought this book to life by making Christmas ornaments!

Inspired by the characters magical spots that he can:

"put [...] on a cat. And [...] on a hat,"

change from green to violet,

and even "take [his] spots and make them four",

I set up an ornament making station with our own colorful spots --- aka pom poms!

Pom Pom Ornaments

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This was no ordinary fill in the clear ornament bulb with pom poms activity. Oh no!... I also added in some dice so that my preschoolers were practicing 1:1 correspondence, counting, and number recognition!!

Yes! That's right... I turned this pom pom ornament into an educational activity!!

After reading Put Me in the Zoo, these are the perfect Christmas ornaments for preschoolers to make!!

How to Make these Storybook Inspired Pom Pom Ornaments

Fill a plastic serving tray with 4-6 colored pom poms in various shapes.

**Be warned that arguing may ensue over small sparkly pom poms, so either have plenty or don't use any.. your welcome ; ) **The character's spots changed in the book from a pink-ish red to blue to orange to green to violet. To fill up our serving tray, we also added yellow. Which worked perfectly, because he's yellow.**BTW, I'm not really sure what kind of animal the main character is-- so I'm not sure what to call him!! Ha! A dog? A bear?

Anyways...

Provide a numbered die and a colored die with the colors of the pom poms that are being used for the ornament making activity to sneak in some learning!

To fill the pom pom ornament, have your child roll both the colored die and numbered die.

Then have your child fill their ornament bulb with that many pom poms of said color.

For instance, in the picture below, my son rolled a purple and the number 6. Thus, he grabbed 6 purple pom poms of his liking and stuffed them into the opening of the Christmas bulb. (Yay! for sneak in some fine motor skills work, too!!)

Next, have another child roll both dice and fill his/her Christmas ornament accordingly. Continue until your child is happy with their pom pom ornament!

Just put the top of the ornament back on to keep the pom poms secured, and tie a ribbon so that you can hand it on the tree.

Such a great Christmas ornament for toddlers, preschoolers, and older kiddos to make! It's one all will enjoy!

These colorful and playful storybook inspired pom pom ornaments are to be a great addition to your Christmas tree!!

Here is a fun and festive gingerbread man craft to make during the holidays. This gingerbread craft will delight kids of all ages as they make their very own Jumbo Stuffed Gingerbread Man using household materials. This gingerbread man craft is a great way to sneak in fine motor skills!

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This Jumbo Stuffed Gingerbread Man is an adorable Christmas craft! Now if only it were edible ; ) Right?!

Ready to make a jumbo stuffed gingerbread man?!

From a paper grocery bag, draw out a gingerbread man outline with a pencil. With scissors, cut the outline out.

If your paper bag has writing on the front, the outlines around so that the gingerbread man body is all brown.

** As noted in our supply list, another option is to trace and cut the gingerbread man's body from brown wrapping paper. The large roll can then be used for wrapping paper!

Next, we decorated our gingerbread man with dot stickers and added eyes and a smile with a sharpie marker.

To keep the two outlines together, I placed paper clips around the gingerbread man. This helped with the next step... using a hole punch!

With a hole punch, start at the top and work your way punch holes around the gingerbread outline.

Ours were pretty close together, but fair warning that so many holes close together may tire little hands while lacing the yarn through the holes.

Although, bigger gaps might allow for the stuffing to pop out.

** If you choose to space the holes further apart, you may want to have a stapler handy for when you stuff the gingerbread man's body.

Alright, our gingerbread man's face is decorate, the holes are prepped... now it is time to add the icing! Aka.... white yarn!!

Use a paper clip to hold the yarn in place and from there begin to lace the yarn in and out of the holes-- all the way around the gingerbread man's body.

This gingerbread man craft is a fun, hands-on way to work on fine motor skills for preschoolers - 2nd grade! Who wouldn't love to have their very own giant gingerbread man?!! He's the perfect buddy to have this Christmas!

Once you lace the yarn almost all the way around the body, stuff the gingerbread man with Easter grass, tissue paper, paper towel, etc.

Use a pencil or some other long object to push the stuffing into the gingerbread man's legs and arms.

Finish lacing the gingerbread man and tie the ends of the yarn together.

Brighten up the holiday by having the kids make cards to give to family and friends! Kid-made cards are one of the best gifts to give this Christmas season. Spread some holiday cheer with these string art for kids Christmas cards! These kid-made cards are fun, colorful, and a great way to keep the kiddos busy over holiday break.

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My kids are big fans of creating, so why not put that creativity to use by having them make Christmas cards to gift to others during this holiday season? These Christmas cards for kids are fun to make-- you may end up with enough for several family, friends, and/or neighbors.

We are also big fans of yarn and string crafts, thus was our inspiration for these kid made Christmas cards!

Christmas Cards for Kids to Make

Using many materials we had around the house, my kids made several String Christmas Tree Cards!

Homeschooling Mama of 5 blessings! Love me some chai tea, cheesecake, and the color turquoise. I hope to inspire you to learn and play with your kiddos with simple, hands-on activities for kiddos of all ages! Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the internet!

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